Architecture Patterns and Brainstorming Sessions
This part composes the guide's earlier decisions into recognizable architecture shapes. It also gives you a repeatable way to compare options, pressure-test recommendations, and explain designs across provider lenses.
What You Will Learn
By the end of this part, you should be able to:
Read patterns as compositions of responsibilities and trade-offs.
Explain web, API, distributed, event-driven, and SaaS design choices.
Translate a provider-neutral design into AWS and Azure implementations.
Lead an architecture conversation from context to recommendation and risk.
Chapters
Web, API, and Application Platform Patterns — compose entry, request flow, runtime, data, scaling, and operating responsibilities.
Distributed Systems, Event-Driven, and SaaS Patterns — reason about boundaries, ownership, coordination, failure, and tenant isolation.
Architecture Brainstorming Sessions and Provider Lenses — practice discovery, option comparison, recommendation, translation, and pressure testing.
How the Chapters Connect
The first two chapters turn individual capability choices into application and distributed-system patterns. The final chapter turns those patterns into a practical conversation method that can survive changing provider names and stakeholder constraints.